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shaqazoolu

That's pretty crazy. I can't say I remember all of it, but most of it is very familiar.

mikedisd2

This was pretty cool, they missed out WinMe though. Even Microsoft wants to pretend it never existed.

alan2308

mikedisd2 wrote: »

This was pretty cool, they missed out WinMe though. Even Microsoft wants to pretend it never existed.

He claims that ME to 2000 can't be done so he had to skip it. It's not recommended, but it can be done.

I saw this suggested somewhere in the past (but not accomplished) and wanted to give it a go, but my only copies of 3.1, 95 and 98 are the full versions and will not upgrade previous versions.

bertieb

The best things about that vid:
1) No WinME (the only times I ever wanted to physically beat the cr@p out of a PC)
2) Doom2

jibbajabba

Guy has way too much time lol ....

tpatt100

Was WindowsMe really that bad or was it the Vista for that time period? I used Me and really could not tell the difference.

RobertKaucher

tpatt100 wrote: »

Was WindowsMe really that bad or was it the Vista for that time period? I used Me and really could not tell the difference.

It was really that bad. I have no issues with Vista. WinMe would crash if you looked at it funny. It suffered from the same sort of architectural issues that plagued Windows 98 before the SE.

phantasm

tpatt100 wrote: »

Was WindowsMe really that bad or was it the Vista for that time period? I used Me and really could not tell the difference.

WinME never should have been coded or released.

jibbajabba

phantasm wrote: »

WinME never should have been coded or released.

Loved Gates' presentation though .. Bluescreen at the release - that was class

demonfurbie

phantasm wrote: »

WinME never should have been coded or released.

imo it was a failed 98 service pack

tpatt100

I don't know because reading about WinME it did add a lot of features that would work its way future versions of Windows. Are we comparing ME from aXP/VIsta perspective or Windows 95-98?

alan2308

tpatt100 wrote: »

I don't know because reading about WinME it did add a lot of features that would work its way future versions of Windows. Are we comparing ME from aXP/VIsta perspective or Windows 95-98?

From either perspective it was a failure. No amount of features can outweigh how unstable it was. Especially when you consider it followed 98se which was quite good in it's day.

Devilsbane

I was fortunate enough to go from 95 to 98 to XP and skip out on both ME and 2000. Then to Vista and finally 7.

RobertKaucher

tpatt100 wrote: »

I don't know because reading about WinME it did add a lot of features that would work its way future versions of Windows. Are we comparing ME from aXP/VIsta perspective or Windows 95-98?

Features do not matter if the OS is so flawed that it becomes unpleasant to use. I'm looking at it from the point of view of a user from back in the day. I hated it, even back then. It was OS on the first PC I ever bought, though I had been using PCs since Win 3.1

eMeS

alan2308 wrote: »

He claims that ME to 2000 can't be done so he had to skip it. It's not recommended, but it can be done.

Not sure why anyone would have taken that upgrade path...as I remember, 2000 was released about 6 months before ME, and both products were aimed at different target markets.

I don't recall ever seeing ME in anything but a home environment...I'm sure someone tried to use it in their enterprise. I do remember seeing a lot of 2000 in the corporate realms back in those days.

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RobertKaucher

eMeS wrote: »

Not sure why anyone would have taken that upgrade path...as I remember, 2000 was released about 6 months before ME, and both products were aimed at different target markets.

I don't recall ever seeing ME in anything but a home environment...I'm sure someone tried to use it in their enterprise. I do remember seeing a lot of 2000 in the corporate realms back in those days.

MS

It's not a true upgrade. If I recall it was actually a clean install, the 2000 upgrade disc would run, though, as it recognized the Win ME install.